Tag: human rights

Demonstrators rallied throughout the weekend to protest the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is run by the Bureau of Prisons.

Michigan has meanwhile presented itself as the ground zero of water problems, as the people of Detroit worked to make themselves a model for solutions.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”

"We must remind the world, again, that Indigenous people matter. We are all made better when we respect one another and lift each other up."

The trump administration's ban conflicts with current immigration law.

Here we highlight some of the rights challenges that captured the world’s attention this year, illustrating the struggle to secure human rights is far from over.

Today’s policy attacks on Native rights reproduce the same misunderstandings of race that the DNA industry is now so assiduously promoting.

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

“It’s so disheartening. This was supposed to be a policy that ended.”

This column is just about one tiny example of the unfairness of this current corporate/capitalist system.